Covid: Pfizer says antiviral pill 89% effective in high risk cases

BBC ^ | Nov 5, 2021 | Jim Reed and Philippa Roxby

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An experimental pill to treat Covid developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults, clinical trial results suggest.

The drug - Paxlovid - is intended for use soon after symptoms develop in people at high risk of severe disease.

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Interim data from trials of the treatment in 1,219 high-risk patients who had recently been infected with Covid found that 0.8% of those given Paxlovid were hospitalised compared with 7% of patients who were given a placebo or dummy pill.

They were treated within three days of Covid symptoms starting.

Seven patients given the placebo died compared to none in the group given the pill.

When treated within five days of symptoms appearing, 1% given Paxlovid ended up in hospital and none died. This compared to 6.7% of the placebo group being hospitalised and 10 of them dying.

Patients in the trial were elderly or had an underlying health condition which put them at higher risk of serious illness from Covid. They all had mild to moderate symptoms of coronavirus.

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This pill really seems to be a giant-killer. If the results apply to the population in general, Covid can be wiped out in a few months, at least in wealthy countries. Pfizer is going to follow Merck in offering to help poor countries manufacture this pill without paying royalties, and offer it to their citizens at a low price.

Some people didn't like the Merck offering because it alters the genes of the Covid virus - what if it starts altering the patient's genes too? The Pfizer pill is much more effective - 89% vs 50% - and doesn't have this problem.

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So can we stop the Vax and Mask scam?

[unixfox]

UH OH, the Biden regime is NOT going to like this. It could put a damper on their vaccine and face diaper mandates.

FJB!

[Sirius Lee]

So can we stop the Vax and Mask scam?

No. No action from here on out will involve the global government dismantling the police state which it has already emplaced and ceding power back to the states or the people themselves.

[exnavy]

Why would any sane person believe this. First three words.

[Freee-dame]

Is this pill any more effective than ivermectin if given in the first few days? Treating coronavirus in the first few days seems to be the key to lessening or eliminating bad outcomes.

How many doctors refused treatment until a person needed to be hospitalized?

[MattMusson]

Ivermecta-Quinine

[MattMusson]

Ivermecta-Quinine

[MattMusson]

Maybe this will stop all those vaccinated people from dying?

[Pollard]

[Nathan _in_Arkansas]

Pfizermectin

[nuke_road_warrior]

I've read that it is similar to Ivermectin, just enough different to be patent-able. No attempt to make a profit off of “horse de-wormer,” nothing to see here.

[LibFreeUSA]

What are the potential side effects?

[T.B. Yoits]

Stopped right at “Pfizer says”. They have no credibility after their lies about the effectiveness of their version of the Jim Jones Jab and their attacks on actual treatments.

[sanjuanbob]

That’d be fine with me if they truly were just greedmongers. I have a tough time believing anything they say. Will their pill have some special added ingredients?

[phoneman08]

Wonderful news!

Sadly, this won’t end the Dictator in Chief’s mandates.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I’ve a proven anti viral pill that costs 50 cents each once a week that has kept me and family covid free for a year and a half. Hydroxychloroquine.

[Pajamajan]

"Pfizermectin"

That would explain its effectiveness.

So when is the jab pushing going to stop?

[servantboy777]

If it is developed and approved under EUA - Emergency Use Authorization, are they going to hide the formulation?

What’s in it?

[ChildOfThe60s]

After Pfizer’s worthless and manipulated vax tests I have to wonder why anybody would take this at face value.

I’m going to have to have a lot more than Pfizer’s word on it to shove any of their crap in my body.